Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 27, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1862 — Page 2

1 "l ir 1 1 I , I 1 H WEEKLY SENTINEL If BAY !OVE JIBEB 84 Trial for Hlrh Treaion. Od the 18th of July last, Johnson's band of guerrillas, from Kentucky, twenty seven in number, made a raid upon Newburg, Warwick county, on the Ohio river, and captured from a storeroom which had been used for a hospital the following property, owned by the State, and which was intended for the defense ot the border: 84 guns, 100 swords, and 100 pistol?, designed for eavalry service, They aiso took from the hospital occupied by invalid soldiers a few pieces of ordnance, a chest of medicine, and some commissary supplies. The only private property taken was three horses, one of which has since been returned. Andbsw J. Hcbton was arrested and indicted as an accomplice of the band, and his trial for high treason came off in the Circuit Court of the United Mates for this district, last week, occupying three days, Judge Swats

ling. The facts elicited in the trial of the are, in substance, as follows: Hl'STox waa in the employ of one McAttis tu as overseer ot the farm of the latter in Kentucky, about three miles from Newburg. The family of Hcstoü resided at Newburg, and it was his habit to go home every Saturday afternoon and return to his work on Monday morning. On the day before the raid Mrs. Huston requested the ferryman to send word to her husband, by the first person that went past McAllister's firm, that his family was sick and needed his immediate attention. He received the message on Friday morning and immediately started home. When be got to the river bank, on the Kentucky side, all of John -on's men had crossed over. They impressed t j ferry boats into their service, and twenty-two crossed in one and five in a skiff. One boat was on the Kentucky and one on the Indiana side The ferryman was on the Indiana side when Hcstox reached the river; Johnsonhad declared martial law in the town; pickets were placed on duty; the ferryman was held a prisoner by two guards detailed for the purpose, and he was compelled to ferry over two loads ot the property captured. When the ferry-boat reached the Kentucky shore, it landed about four hundred yards below the regular landing. Huston asked to get on to cross. He was directed by the ferryman tot.1) to the landing, and when about to step on the boat the rebel guard asked who he was and his business. Senior Meffobd told the guard "he was all right;" that he had a sick family in Newburg, and he was then permitted to go on board. Johnson had proclaimed 'hit he did not intend to disturb private property or private citizens, but that he was after Government stores and arms. When the boat landed at Newburg, the guard took Bbowm.ee, the ferryman, with Huston, to Johnson, who was at the hospital paroling prisoners, and he was released. Huston walked with the picket guard to their station, when he was permitted to pass the guard! line towards his home. He visited his family. Mrs. Lance, who was proven by four or five witnesses to be a common prostitute, and by one that she was not of sane mind, testified that she heard Histon say, on his way home with the guard, that "there were as good ones there as ever was rode," without indicating in any possible shape or seeing him accompany them to the livery -table from whence the hree horses were taken, what horses he alluded to, or where they were. Another witness, Hcxroao, testiGed that he saw Huston carrying three or four muskets towards the river, passing by his tin shop. Quite a number of guerrillas were also carrying muskets at the same time. He identified Huston by bis wearing a black felt hat, but he conld not describe his appearance in any other respect Another witness swore that Huston on that day bad worn a palm leaf hat. He saw him leave Mr. A luster's farm with it on, and saw him with it on the afternoon of the same day the raid occurred. Huxford was evidently excited when giving his testimony. 1 here was no evidence to show that Huston was present when the muskets and the horses were taken by Johnson's men. Lancott. another witness, who was on the Kentucky hide when Huston reached the river, testified that Huston, upon being asked what he was at the river Tor. said that be came 'down to see the fun." On the boat crossing the river, it appeared in the testimony that Huston remarked it was a pretty borne guard to let twenty seven men capture a town of a thousand inhabitants. Subsequently he proposed to be one of ten men to capture the guerrillas. This latter remark was made after the killing of Mcrroao and Car.net, who were undoubtedly accomplices of the band. One of the prosecuting witnesses, Robert Graham, swore in the most positive terms, to his knowledge that Huston was a good loyal citizen, although he had also stated that Huston had told a crowd of citizens in Newburg that there were six cannon on the opposite side of the river, and that the guerrillas would shell the town if they made any further resistance These are the main points of the evidence in the case. Judge Swatne charged that the jury must accept one side ot the testimony, and reject the other. There were three counts in the indictment. In referring to that clause of the constitution which says " no person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witaeaaes to the same overt act," the Judge placed the following construction upon it: In his opinion it did not require the evidence of two witnesses to prove the charge in each count, but it was sufficient to convict if the first or second count was proven by one witness, and third or fourth by another. It was enough that the indictment was maintained as a whole on the testimony of two witnesses, without reference to each count. Jodge Swatne has the reputation of being a great lawyer a constitutional lawyer, and he My be right in this construction of the constitution, if his opinion is correctly reported. Let us test it by common sense. The prisoner is charged in one of the counts of the indictment with an "overt act" of treason. This is sustained by only one witness. Is it possible that this can be a conviction within the meaning of the constitu tion ? 71 ill the Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States venture such an opinion ? We axe unwilling to believe that Judge Swatnr, occupying the high position that he does, will jeopardize his position as a citizen, as a lawyer, as a Judge, by such an opinion If so, all the guar antees of the constitution to the citizen are not worth the paper upon which that instrument is written. We hope that Judge Swatne will not risk his high reputation as a learned lawyer and a patriotic citizen, by disregarding, for partisan porposes. any protection, any of Um barriers, which the constitution has provided for the protection of those who owe it sllegiance. His charge evidently leaned against the prisoner. The ju-y were out twenty hours, when they seat a request to the Judge to dismiss is there was no possibility of sn agreeAt midnight, we understand, tbey were equally divided The Jodge dismissed the jury, snd the prisooer was) remanded for another trial. Huston is a poor man. He depends upon his daily labor for the support of his family. Counsel, Hon. David McDonald, was assigned him by Us court His only witnesses were prisoners who weso in confinement upon charges similar to bis own, except too oho happened to be present as toe trial. Too avawstanonl oae weakly drawn, moo M Qosob it The

a - i ., . si Tirii rmraii , minstion evidently being to trt Hüsto pon the merits of the case. He had no means to procure testimony or to employ attorneys to hunt i. up. But he had good counsel, snd his esse was sbly managed. This is the first case of treason tried in Indiana; and this fact, with the peculiar circumstances attending it, gives it an unusual interest. From tLe evidence we think it unfair to infer that Huston meditated treason. He was not connected with the band, nor did he appear to have any knowledge of the raid until he came to the river to cross home, in obedience to the summons of his wife to attend upon his sick family. Under the circumstances he was placed, part of

! the time a prisoner, he may have used expressions which could be construed into giving information to the guerrillas. But his expressions of astonishment while crossing the river that a town of a thousand inhabitants should nerrnit a band ot ...... .... i twentv seven men to hold it in subiect.on and capture public property; his willingness to be one of a band of ten to drive them out; his previous good character and proven loyalty, are corroborating evidences to show that no crime was intended against the Government. It has been said that the jury stood according to their political sympathies. There was no knowledge on the part of the jury of the political sentiments of each other. A discussion of politi cal questions was forbidden by the Court, and the jury themselves prohibited any conversation that would give any indication of the party bias of each other. In this connection it is just to the jury to say that the report of the testimony in the Journal of Saturday is not correct. If the evidence had been as represented, the jury would have agreed upon a verdict of conviction. We have no knowledge of or sympathy with Huston; but let justice be done, though the heavens fall. I guilty, he should be punished; but no matter how humble or how high the person may be who is arraigned for crime, all the rights of the citizen should be respected and maintained. This every Court should regard as its first duty. That Calculation. The Chairman of the Republican State Centra! Committee, in his labored address to prove that there are one hundred and twenty seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-seven (127.977) "disloyal" persons in Indiana that is. Democrats squeezes out a list of seventy-three Democrats who "gave an active and warm support" to the Abolition faction at the late election in this State. Of this seventy three persous who are said to have abandoned their political friends, just one-half of them are known to hold office from the General or State Governments, and many others, no doubt, are filling little places in the commissariat, where no commission is necessary to accomplish "the one thing needful." Others are put down as deserters from the Democratic party, who are known as true and "loyal Democrats, and who voted the whole Demo cratic ticket; while others have written to their lriends in this State "rejoicing in the success of the glorious old Democratic- party of Indiana." The Chairman ol this bogus Union Committee although a man of letter, as Postmasters gener ally are is as liable to be deceived in men as any one else. His list will have to be revised. The address may do to keep up the sinking spirits of bis friends in distant States; but in Indiana his party is doomed neei to rise again. The Proclamation to be Tlodl lied. The Chicago Post says: We have information from private sources at Washington which war rent us in saying that the policy enunciated in the President's "proclamation of freedom" will be modified in his forthcoming message to Con gress. The proclamation itself will not be with drawn, there being no occasion for its withdraw), even should the President resolve upon a policy its very opposite, inasmuch as its vitality depends wholly upon his future action. But he will recommend for the approval of Congress certain measures amendatory of 'he confiscation act, which will cover the whole subject of the slave property of rebels, snd which will obviate any further action on his part under the proclamation. The policy he will recommend will be nn essential modification of the "military abolition" policy, and the alternative will rest with Conpress of adopting it as a "finality," or of looking in vain for the edict which will vitalize the proclamation on the first of January. We shall expect to see not a little loud talking among the extreme radicals in Congress when the message is read to them. But ot this they may be assured in advance the President will not attempt to carry out the proclamation. He has made up his mind not to. Question Mettled. It is now definitely settled, by authority of the Republican Central Committe for Indiana, that seventy three Democrats voted the Abolition ticket at the recent election. These were, however, the "most able and influential" men in our ranks, for a shabby Democrat is always a great man when he joins the Abolitionists! Even Governor Morton though a Democrat till he feil in love with the Know Nothings was only a reasonably great man in our ranks; but when he joined "Sam," and cursed the Dutch and Irish, he became hugely magnificent in the eyes of the intolerant faction which so recently bestrode this land. Now, that Governor WaicHT caught seventytwo Democrats, by the aid of Governor Morton and his valuable commissioners, can't the Chair man of the Republican Central Committee tell us bow many conscientious Republicans voted the Democratic ticket at the October election If If he will figure that up, he will be able to account for the defeat of his party without racking his brains about imaginary frauds. Correction. Incorrectly we placed the name of John B. Lemond, as the Representative from Dubois county, on our list ot the members elected to the present Legislature. Mr. Lemomd was the nominee ot the Democ-aey fot that position before the election, but he died previous thereto. Another Convention was held and B. R. Kemp, Esq., was nominated in the place of Mr. Lewond, and was elected by the following vote: For B. R. Kiur. Democrat, 1,219; for H. Nicholson, opponent, 121 making the majority ' of the former 11'.'-. enough, we think, to satisfy j any reasonable man. Mr. Kemf is a clever gen tleman, and a Democrat "without variableness or j shsdow of turning." Atrocioi-s A Fayal correspondent of the Gloucester Advertiser, who dates on board the gunboat Kearsage, says: "The Captain of one of the ships that was burned by the pirate Alabama was on board of our vessel to day. He says most of the vessels burned by the pirate were whalers One of them had been out nearly three years, and had a full cargo of oil. There were upwards of twelve ships burned. One of them showed fight, and they blowed her all to pieces not a soul was saved. Such wholesale piracy on the high seas ! is enough to make one's blood chill in his veins Our boys are highly indignant. We long to get our clutches upon her, and if we do I pity thm, I for we shall not spare them. We are bound to j find her, and I can assure you we shall ive no i quarter. I overheard one of the Captains say that the crew on board of her are much dissatisI tied, and it would not take much ttwnake them mutiny. The Montreal papers say that the sleigh ing in that city and vicinity is excellent. There was a severe snow storm, continuing the whole o Sunday last. Quite a squad of guerrillas, captured in Kentucky, arrived bars yesterday, snd wore lodged hs Jell

The Romancer. Our very snappish neighbor of the Journal is fairly entitled to the sobriquet of "Short and Dirty," which is almost universally conceded to him. He looks it, he acts it, he feels it, he writes it. In his estimation everybody is a "fool" but himselt. It is a favorite term with him, which he never fails to apply to those with whom he nay differ. Mr. Lincoln, for some variance with the notions of the Journal man, is pronounced a "big fool," and for a similar cause the same courteous expression he applies to Mr. Seward, to Gen. McClrlla.v, to Gen. Buell, and to everybody else who cannot see through his very short sighted eyes. And then, to give a little more force to his denunciation, the gen tlemanly expression of "lie" is added. Look through the editorial columns of the Journal while they have been under the control of its

present editor, and we wager that there can be . found enough ot the words "fool ;ind "liar to fill a book of the dimensions of Webster's Un abridged Dictionary. But the chief fort of the editor of the Journal is romancing. He does not pretend to even editorial fairness or integrity. Under oath, lately, he admitted that his editorials were romance, and that truth was not regarded or expected in their composition. With great gravity he asserted, in an editorial a few months ago, that there was a plot on foot in Sullivan county to assassinate Governor Morton by a railroad collision, and that he had the facts in his possession to prove it beyond a doubt. He was sent for to divulge this important information. He denied that he had. or ever had had, any such information that it was only an editorial assertion, a little romance, for effect. That's the spectacle the editor of the Journal presented in a legal investigation in which he was called upon to substantiate charges against citizens of Sullivan county. He stands a confirmed falsifier. lie admits that his editorial assertions are not entitled to belief. Such is the character in which the editor of the Journal presents himself to his readers. What a beautiful specimen to represent the party that claims, with phar.isaical preteusion, to be pre-emiiirntly pure, moral and pious much better than their fellow men of a different faith ! Our neighbor does not like our comments upon the "romance" issued by "A. H. Connir. Chairman of Union' Central Committee." Sic, in which he attributes the Republican defeat, in October last, to fraud and the absence of the soldiers from the State. The address was put forth as a romance. It was intended for yellow cover literature. The "Union" party was a "fraud" from the beginning. It was intended for a deception. The guise was assumed by the old Republican hacks to deceive the neonle. it They hoped, by prostituting the sacred name of Union, they might retain in their hands a political power which they had infamously perverted fur their own selfish and unpatriotic purposes. The veil was too thin. Although covered up in a meal tub, the old torn cats could not make good their disguise. If the body was hid, the odor was there And now they want an excuse for their defeat, and in the romancing columns of the Journal they give out it was by "fraud." If fraud was the cause, it was their own frauds. This they feel And the honest members of the late Republican organization admit and believe that their overwhelming defeat was just, and that the best interests ot the country will be promoted thereby. Thousands of Republicans have given this testimony since the election, accom paired with the declaration that they have voted for the last time with the Chicago platform party. We can tell these Republican leaders that Republican frauds beat them. And we will illustrate this charge by a little incident that occurred a few days ago. A SoHss who was captured and paroled at Munfordville, whose home is near Brook ville. in a conversation said: "You may well rejoice over Democratic victories. I went into the armv a Republican, as I always had been I have seen enough to satisfy me that the object of the war is not, as pretended ly the Republican leaders, for maintaining the National authority and restoring the Union, but that its purpose is to abolish slavery I cannot be deceived in this, for my own eyes and ear will not mislead my judgment. I cannot get out of the army, but I can vote when opportunity is offered to hurl the men from power whom I help put in. In October last, for the first time, I voted with the Democracy. My father, two brothers, and two brothers in-law, who, like me, had always voted with the Repub licans, went to the polls with me and voted as I did, because they believed a change of adminis tration was necessary to s u e the country and restore the Government of our fathers. What those men did thousands in Indiana did at the October election. Their convictions and action explain from whence came ihe accessions to the Demociatic party. That's the cause of the great popular revolution in the North And it has only commenced. Time will give it increased slreogth, until there is not a vestige of Abolitionism or Secessionism left until the power of those enemies to the Constitution and the Union is completely and forever broken. This Mr. Chairman Conner understands. This the Journal man well knows And at least two thirds of the soldiers, when they return from the field, will come back with the convictions of the honest Republican soldier from Franklin county, and, like him, vote the Abolitionists and their sympathizers out of political existence. The Journal romancer has not begun to hear the thunder that will yet make his knees tremble, as did the wicked king at the handwriting upon the wall. Is fie a Secessionist I Says the New York Evening Post : Mr. T. A. Hendricks, of Indiana, who aspires to succeed Jesse D. Bright in the Senate of the United States, is a Secessionist of the first water. Iu a speech made by him last year he said: "The first and highest interest of the Northwest Is in the restoration mid preservation of the Union upon the basis of the Constitution, and the deep devotion of her Democracy to the cause of the Union is shown by its fidelity in the past; but if the failure and folly and wickedness of the party in power rentier a Union impossible, then the mighty Northwest must take care of herself and her own interests. She must not allow the arts and fineness of New England to despoil her of her richest commerce and trade, snd to render her labor wholly subservient to an Eastern sectional and selfish policy Eastern lust of power, commerce and gain." We do not precisely see how this makes Mr. Hendricks a secessionist of the first water or any other water, ll is difficult for one to express at tachment to the Union more strongly than he expresses it in this extract. Beyond that, if the failure and folly and wickedness of the party in power shall renders Union impossible, he simply proposes that the Northwest shall take care of her own interests. In other words, if New England fanaticism shall succeed in permanently dividing the Union, he proposes that the Northwest shall not settle down into playing the part of tail to the New England kite. If that be treason, Abolitionism will have to make the most of it. It would hue been a great remedy for New Engl i ni fanaticism if it had been long ago uu derstood that, if the old Union should be broken . up. New England sectional interests, which have had such extraordinary protection in the Uuion, would be left out in tht cold in future combinations. Mr. Hendricks uttered the unmistaksble voice of the Northwest. The voice is for the old Union so long is there shall be the remotest hope ot its restoration; but if New England fanaticism and folly and wickedness nhall make restoration impossible, the Northwest will take care of herself and her own interests. Chicago Times. The wife of one of the draft rioters went to Milwaukee iu search of her husband. Orief had made her deranged, and she was taken in charge by the police. She was afterwards taken to the county poor bouse, to all appearances hopelessly Insane

Höre Romancing. The Indianapolis Journal, from the meeting ol

the 8ih of January Convention to the October j election, denounced its candidates and all who 1 participated iu it as traitors. It likewise chsrsc terlied the 30th of July Democratic Convention as a body of disloyal citizens as "traitors in council." But a change has come o ver the spirit of its dreams. The election is over. There is no longer a pressing necessity to impugn the motives and patriotism of the members of an opposite political organization. It now concedes that Democrats can be, iu fact are, equally as honest equally as pure, and equally influenced by patriotic considerations as the best men of its owl party. Referring to the recent canard ot the New Yoik Tribune, that "clandestine negotia tions" have been opened between certain parties in New York and Richmond for the re construe tion of the Union, upon a basis almost identical with what it had suggested itself as a means of restoring peace, it says: No man believes that William S. Holman, James S Athon, James A. Cravens, Matthew L. Brett, or twentv other Democratic leaders we could name. ould lend any countenance to so ; infamous a scheme. Thev are loyal. Thev de i ., , . . sire ihe restoration of the Government, and the assertion of its risen; of rule over those who have so causelessly and treacherously defied it. I'hey have no sympithy with those who would degrade the nation that a party might prevail. Thev are dissatisfied with m my acts of the Administra tion; so are we, and so is every man in the naliou; but they no more than we desire the overthrow of the Government for the ruin of its temporary occupants. They can distinguish be tween the Government and its officers, and, while dissenting front much that the I a Iter have done, give all their zeal to the preservation of the former. Better loyalty than this we do not care to see. Mark the words. Read the confession of the editor of the central organ of the Republican party of Indiana, who for months denounced the men as trailers, whom it now says " are loyal." James T. Athon and Mathk.w L Brett were the nominees of what the Journal charged a disloyal convention. They were endorsed by another State mass convention which the Journal denounced ns a nest of traitors. Now it says "they are loval." More than this. It admits that " they give all their zeil to the preservation of the government." Further, " belter loyalty than this," it says, " it does not care to see." Yet the election of these now " loyal " citizens it pronounced to be a "butternut" triumph. Messrs. Holm an and Cravens participated in the proceedings of the convention of the 30th of July, which it said was conposeLpf " '.raitors in council;" but upon sober -cond thought i pronounces them to be " loyal ' to the core There is another notable feature in the extract we copy from the Journal. It says there is a distinction between the government and its offi cers, and a disapproval of the acts of the latter is not incompatible with the highest loyalty to the former. Before the election it made no such distinction. Then opposition to the Administration was dis loyalty to the Government How can this change of the Journal be explained? Why this difference in its estimate of patriotism of loyalty to the Government? Its charges of disloyalty agninst the Democratic party were only romance. They were m.ide merely for political effect. It misrepresented the motives and sentiments of Democrats for partisan purposes to secure a p.uiy inump.i. i ins is uie coiiiess.oii 01 um .-1 l. mi... :- .1.- r..:.. .1 I Journal. It admits that it endeavored to mis lead its readers, the members of its own political . .. it. i . . . organization, solelv to advance its party s i iter - ests. Such, Republicans of Indiana, is the character of vour central organ. It deals in fiction, uot in truth or iu fact. Grapevine Mews. Special dispatches from Washington report that , "there is a rumor there that our forces have ex perienced a disastrous deleat at or near Harper s Ferry. It is said that the rebels came upon the place in force, and have taken more than three thousand prisoners, and sutlers' wagons to the value of many thousand dollars. Among the prisoners it is said that there are two companies of the Brooklyn Fourteenth New York Yolini teers, mid that about six hundred paroled or exchanged prisoners were also capture!. It is also said that their capture of commissary and quar termastcr's stores amounts to the value of a million dollars. Although the r-imor has assume! this definite form, it is not believed iu official quarters." nnrnideon Ticriellan. A year ago. Gen. Bubnside addressed a meet ing at the Cooper Institute, New York, and in the course of his remarks said : I ask your forbearance, for your patience with, your confidence in, the young chief who has now assutnel the command. I have known him most intimately, as students together, as soldiers in the field, and as private students. For years we hare lived in the same family, and I know him as well as I know any human MOO on the face of the earth, and I know that no mure htnest, ennscien tious man txists than Gen McClellan. I know that no feeling of ambition beyond that of the good and the success of our caue ever enters his breast. AU that he does is with a single eye. a single view, to the success of this Government and the putting down ol the rebellion I know that nothing under the sui will ever induce that man to swerve from what he knows to be h s duty. He is an honest. Christian likeand conscientious man; and now let ine add one thing, that he has the soundest head and the clearest military perception of any man in the United States. gy There are some lessons which General Halleck may ponder on with advantage to himself. Whatever his desires or hopes may be for the future, he has no seat in the popular affections. The radicals will use 4im, but they will throw him away when they are done with him. He aids them to crush his friend to day. They will find a Fremont to aid them iu crushing him to morrow. Detroit Free Fr ess. We trust General II.m.lkck does not stand in need of this lesson, but the careful consideration of it can do him no harm. Militast N i s r : i n vs. Political Nkcessi Tits. The Washington spe-ial ol the World says: " It is state! on good authority that the main object ot Uen Halleck's visit to the army of the Potomac, last week, was to impress upon Gen. Burnside the necessity for an immediate ad vnnce. Indeed, he told the General that he must move at once, for political as well as for military reasons. The new commander of the army of the Potomac instantly replied, iu substance, that ns long as its movements were under his control, thev would be governed by militaty necessities exclusively; that if they were to be controlled by political necessities, he must ask that some other General be appointed in his pi. ire. under whom he would most cheerfully serve. Gen. Burnside added that he was as much surprised at the transfer of the command of the army of the Potomac from Gen. McClellan to himself, as the general public seemed to be, and as long as he retained it he wished to have the sole direction of its movements: A Cbaxce roa FatnoxT. The people of Greece have just kicked out of doors King Otho, who for some years has mismanage! their affairs, and now are out in the London papers with an advertisement, " King wanted. " They offer liberally to a person who tan o.ne well recomjeiided, and who is disposed to make himself generally useful. Cannot John Charles, who is just now " waiting for something to turn up." get the necessary recommendations, and take advantage of this splendid opportunity ? Mastis Vax Bubkn's Will The will of Piesident Van Bubicx has been admitted to probate at Hudson It is dated January 18th. 1860, and commences as follows: I. Martin Van Buren, of thi town of Kinder hook, county of Columbia, and State of New York, heretofore QwVernor of the State, and more recently President of the United States, but for the last and happiest years of my life a farmer in my native town, do make and declare the following to be my last will aud ietamsui. Ate.

The Assassination of the President. We up ill a few days recently in Washington City, snd while there saw many things, and heard in in v things, which to us seemed very suggestive ev idence of the extraordinary pt ogress with which the nation is rushing onward in its history. The presence of an armed guard at the gates of the Executive mansion every morning, and the care la Iren to keep strangers outside of the approaches to ibe building, was to us something new. Upon inquiry we ascertained that this guard was only employed to keep strangers out until the Presi dent should strive from the Soldier's Home, where he has resided for manv months. His ar-

rivals and departures from the Executive mansion i are, notwithstanding the melam-holv suggestions they render very remarkable We saw him leave the building once, and though the sight may be witnessed every day, it was of a character too wretched to invite .. second visit. We saw him I ave on a Sunday afternoon, and the manner was as follows; About half past five iu the afternoon, a mounted guird, numbering thirty or more troopers, all armed with drawn sabres, extensive spears, and dangling and rattling scabbards, fierce beards, and revolvers stuck in their holsters, dashed furiously through the streets, and entered the grounds north of the President's house. At the steps in front of the door, and under the arch way, was a carriage. The officer, or one of the (it ers . ot the ninniitnl iMinnl uli.,Kia.l a,.. hiUiam , . T, ' 3 ' . - - . w v. in . . iv t . 1 1 uiiiiuira iic nil pea red at the door, and giving n signal, the carriage door was opened, the guaid nut themselves in martial attitudes, commands were given, and then the President, (tending under a weight of inent il anxiety which has worked heavily upon his physical frame, appeared with a portfolio under his arm, anil, with one or more soldiers at each side, walked rapidlv to the carriage and entered it Two officer. je uped in also, the door was slammed, the guai j galloped into position, and the carriage containing the President of the United States was driven off, preceded bv troopers, followed by troopers, and H inked on both sides by troopers. At a very rapid puce ihe party lei i the ground, and on reachinafhe avenue proceeded at a hand-gallop out Fourteenth street toward the Soldier's Home. All this, we confess, appeared to us to be verv ridiculous. We had seen Jackson riding alone through the streets ol Washington. Mr. Van Bureu, the President, was accustomed, alone, or will, the members of his family, to ride on horse back, not only through the citv, but in the coun I try for many miles. John Tvler's face, with its enormous nose, was familiar to all, from the frequency with which it was seen in public. Gen. Taylor, during his short term, made a daily walk upon the avenue a regular occurrence. Mr. Fillmore was equally confident of safety. Mr. Pierce, perhaps more than any other President, was frequently to be seen, unattended, walking upon the public streets, or riding in all parts of the city on horseback. Even Mr Buchanan, whose conscience, if it. ever caused a President a thought as to his crsoual safety, ought, perhaps, to have been troubled ns much as that of any one who ever held the office, never seemed to fear assassination or personal violence, but habitually walked, untttended, in all parts of the city. Knowing these things, Mr. Lincoln's armed guard, and the precautions taken to protect him from violence, appeared to us to be an affectation of fear which was not only disgusting to the public, but wholly unworthy of a President of the Unite! States. But justice to Mr. Lincoln and to those who I may have advisel him to this proceeding rejuires I that the reasons lor the proceeding we mean the reasons furnished by public gossip should also be given. To the o.-dinary obserer of the cavalcade which dashe to the Executive Mansion every morning, and away from it every evening, it will occur that the object of the guard is to protect the occupant of the carriage from assassination or personal violence. This naturally causes the inquiry, are such extraordinary means of protecting the oerson of the President neces sary? and, if so, why are they necessary? It is in answer to the-e last inquiries that we propose to relate the current statements made i it a ! iugton, and which we give for what than,- are I ivot'tll Olio sbirv runs ill it u tlia P. n. iliit tr-ic returning to the citv on horseback one morning, rithiu the ; ome months ago, he was fired at usi city limits; that the President escape !, and that, with whip, voice, heels, and everv other anpliI K . ' . . . 11 , i a nee used upon his horse, that animal made such mice used upon his horse, time to the President's house as had never been eualed before. Iu the run the President lost his hat, and did not stop to recover it, but reachel his houie in the city breathless and dust covered. The official report of the occurrencewasih.it the horse of the President had become frightened and run off with him. The next story is, that as Mr. Lincoln was tiding toward the Soldiers' Home, late iu the af ternooii, ami when he had entered ihe narrow and mice shady lane, west of tint building, he was fired upon twice by a in .n who stood behind the fence on the side of the road. The Pi esi lent escapel unhurt, but his horse wns slightly wound ed. The alarm was given, the man overtaken, and is now confined iu some one of the many Government prisons, where ihe order to commit is not required to name the cause of arrest. This version of the attempted assassination of the President rests upon the testimony of un 'intel liiienl" negro, who, if we mi-take not, declares that the armed escort was the result of one or the other of these allege! tlempis at assassination, and that to prevent their repetition, or to piotect the President from a repetition of the indignity and danger, this armel guard, so unprece'ented in the history of the Presidents of the United States, was called into service. We repeat, lhat we give only the current stories of the metropolis as to the allege! atiempts to assassinate Mr Lincoln. If they are untrue, they ought, by the authority of the Government, to be braudel as raise, because circulated as they now are, they serve all the purposes for which such stories might be put in circulation, mid daily gain crelence horn the public because of the ab sence ot all contradiction. The mounted guard that accompanies the President every time he leaves the President's houe. is. however, a fact which is witnessed by all. Why is such a guard necessary ? Does the President fear violence? Does he tear the assassin's bullet? Does lie believe that the enemies of the country look upon him as ihe onlv obstruction in the way af that country's ruin? If he has no tear of personal violence or insult, then this mounted guard is in very bad taste. It is a step toward royal dignity that is ridiculous. We cannot telieve that it was ever suggested or provide! by Mr. Lincoln. Whoever mi i-ed him, or whoever force! it upon him, has done an act calculated more than all things (if no danger to the President really existed) to make the Presi dent ridiculous in the eyes of his countrymen. We cannot b ring our mind to the belief that any sane man ever has or ever will attempt the assassination of the President. Insane men have nttemptel such things. We belie e a drunken man once attemptei to shoot a President at Washington, but no guard, mostitel or dismouutel, will ever protect a mm asainst the methodical diabolism ot madmen. We should be sorry to have it made known at home or abroad that the Tresident ol the United Slates lives in daily feir of assassination. The flight through Baltimore, with a long cloak and Scotch cap, has been laughed into contempt, and it is to be hoped that the President's advisers will not force him into any fuither repetitions of that ab surdity. For over eighty years the Union has lasted w ithout an army to enforce its laws, or to compel obedience to its Constitution. For the same period the Presidents ot the republic have Ines through their terms unawed by threats and untrouoled by attempts at personal violence. Their security has been in the honor and respect ot the whole people for the officer chosen by the majori i to goveru the nation. At last it has become necessary to call armies into existence to put down nrmei resistance to the laws and the Constitution. Let us hope lhat even in the destruction of the Union, Constitution, laws, Government and nationality, the world will not lie shocked by the spectacle of a people who, unable to bear the weight of adversity, have relapsed into barbarism, and made the dagger and the bullet the law of the land, and given to the assassin's hand the scepter of power. Let us hope that this armed guard of Mr. Lincoln is only a passing show got up for 'he amusement of a gaping crowd, and that it las not and never has hnd any foundation in a fear by the President or any of his friends that he was in danger of assassination. Chicago Post. Death Amono thk NtiGaoia It is said that there is much sickness prevailing among the Unionists lately imported into this county by some of our citizens The negroes say "de white folks call de disease the die rare" (diairhoea ) It is said that in me negro quarters established by some persons residng near Richview, eight deaths have occurred, and in another establishment of the same character belonging to some oilier persons near the same place, there have been five deaths. In other establishments not so extensive there have been one, two and three deaths. Will the county tax payers have to pay physicians' bills and burial expenses of those contrabands? Lit the importers foot these bills. Nashville (III.) Jacksonian, Nov. 14. Ay Otu Membu Lord Palmerston has been a member of the Kuglisb House ot Commoua for fifty five years

The Northern Flections--An Fxprraton from the South. As itseem to be incontestible that the Democrats absent from home iu the Yankee armies are in the proportion of ar least five to one to the Re publicans, the victory which the Democrats have just won at the polls is the most astonishing on record. What does it signify? In our humble judgment it means this and nothing more: The Democrats have a vast deil more setise than the Republicans, and cannot fail to see how completely the latter have succeeded in destroying the prosperity of the North They

always opposed the suiciuni toil v or mm i.tction

their continual aggressions upon the South, and i " 'TO r- "nL "oerioos to manage u nimtheir systematic efforts to make the nigger the j self, commencing by the proclamation of his silly onlv question ... the Congress of the United nJ "" 0t? ' Th? oth heStates Thev opposed this polier because llieT been during the hole of the last four months, could not but foresee that it wuld'lead to the de "fej" Management of the present Generalstruct i hi of the Union, ano all the material inter- I . Ch,ef' U,e firt period the country ests which, so tar as the North was concerned. w,lues8d lhe br,ll,u."t episode of the Peninsula thev felt to be bound up in it. I mm&' a paign. the truus of which were the Republicans afford, indeed, the most as- , b7 e red mberil.ty and tonishing example of men quarreling with their ( "'on '.ch controlled the head of the army own bread and butter which we recollect ever to : tl Washington just at the moment when they

have heard of. Thev had in the South the most I magnificent market lor their manufactures to be i found in the whole world. It was untaxed and u .1 unrestrained Thev p ud no dunes, mid were the ! onlv people in the world that paid none. Competition was not allowed to come near them. Heavy tariffs shut it out from abroad, mid our own people were engaged in other pursuits. The coasting trade the heaviest in the world was all done by their ships. The Southern cotton and tobacco, the great staples of the world, all passed through their hands on their way to a foreign maiket. The verv negroes for whose sake thev were constantly threatening the South, were a source ; of far more profit to them than they lute ever . been to Uieir misters. The cotton and tobacco of the South were, indeed, the grand levers that set all Northern trade in motion. Witliout them New York would never have risen above the fig j ures that iepieeiitel her population in l-l'l. mid 1 New England would have been where she ought to be now, at the tail of the Union. 1 he Democrats could see all this, but the Republicans could not n ml they persisted until they destroyed the Union. The Democrats now wish to restore that Union, because, whilst it existed, it was a source of un Hoyel prosperity. They see plainly enough that, if the North be compellei to pay the same duties with England. England will supplant the manufactures of ihe North Thev see that if direct

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firmli v established. New York will cease to be the j money centre of America. They see that, il the coasting trade be thrown open to competition, j England will do the larger share of it. Iu word, thev clearly understand that the desiruc tion of the monopoly they have fieen so long enjoying will be a death blow to all Northern interests, for they know well enough the difference between framing tariffs to shut out all oilier ieo pie. and having tariffs Ira med to shut out themselves When it is too late, the Republicans see this too; and seeing also the hopelessness of restoring the Union, they are oajtiwg a savage war for the purpose of rendering a desert those portions of which they can no longer control. The Democrats, however, take a different view of the sub jeet. They believe restoration still possible. In this respect they do uot manifest their usual sagacity. They have the incredible folly to be lieve that there still links among the body of that people, who have fought against ihe L'nion as men never fought liefore, a secret attachment, to " the old flag." which is the most detested of all earthlv svmbols to the whole body of the j S lutuern people. Thev do not reflect that, while to them the condition which it is intended to rep resent has been productive of unalloyed blessings, it is associate! in the Southern mind with images of commercial poverty and sectional op pression. To this imagined feeling of latent loyalty to the Union they are willing to appeal They have no doubt but lhat they will he sue cessful. But first they must beat us into the hu mor lor submission. They must make us know their strength. They mii-t teach us that they are our masters. 'I'hey must kill a hundred or two thousand of our men. I'hey must crush the lebellion And then they will ofl'er us terms, having first asserted the supremacy of the " American eacle." as thev are facetiously wont to term the Yankee buzzard. They care, and pretend to care, nothing for the nigger. They will be willing, after having conquered u, to agree upon any terms, provided tl.e Union be restorel. They will con ent to introduce slavery into every Stite iu the Uuion, provided this grand object be attained. If the Southern peiple will not agree to all thi, as most assuredlv thev never will, then thev are for carrying on the war to any extremity that I would satisfy the most ultra of the Abolition I j party Thev will never consent let John Van I ; Buren say what hem ay to let the "wayward sis- I i ters" depart in pence It may be that a Democratic Congress might i j propose to the Southern States, as a condition of : j re entering the Union, to legalize slavery every- , ! where, and this before proceeding further with the I war. But even were the South dispose!, under -j any circumstances, to re enter such a state of . bondage, it must be loriie in mind that the pres . ' eut Abolition Congress has still one year to run. j Iu th it time some ot the most desperate battles I the world ever heard of will have In-en fought, mid the Yankees will already have conquered us I or be expelled from our territorv. So far, then. as the war is concerned, we shall gain nothing by the late Demociatic victories, at least for the present. As in the caseof expected intervention, we warn our peiple to trust to themselves, mid to nobody and nothing else Nevertheless, it is pleasant to find Old Abe thwarted in the dearest wishes ol his heart Richmond Examiner, November lihh. .VlcClclla aa Speech at Trenton-- A Verbatim lteport Correpoin1enee ol the N. Y. World. Teknton, N. J., Nov. 14. s With extreme exertion only could Gen. McClellan be brought to the front, so tre mentions was the rush to see him. He was lit eraily lilted almost from his feet ns he reached the door, and w hile the band plael the ' Star Spangitd Banner," the vast multitude rent the welkin with clieer upon cheer, which echoe! far away down all the neighboring streets. The ladies at the w indows waved handkerchiefs and fl igs, and clapped their hands iu hi nor id' one who only crows dearer to the peple the more he is traduced and betrayed. The general was himself viibl v moved by this sponlaneiusaiid uiiniisiakablfjouiburst of feeling, and began his remaiks iu a trembling, although cle r and ringing tone: "My friends tor I feel that you are all my friends I stand before you. uot as a maker of speeches, not as a politician, but simply as a sol dier. 1 came among you to seek quiet and re pose for a brief period, and since the moment of my arrival I have reveived nothing but evidences of the daepest friendship. 1 have been too long associate! w ith the gallant troops of New Jersey in the field to feel my self a stranger here From the instant when I first assumed command the sons of vour noble State were with me. From the siege of Yorktowii to the battle of Autietam they were ever brave, faithful and efficient. On numerous occasions I witnessed their undaunted courage, and that of the ever-true and daring Taylor, aud the gallant, the intrepid, the impetu ous Keaney, who sealed with their life blood their devotion to their State and country." here the demonstrations of the immense concuuise I km .une so uncontrolable that the General was obliged to desist from speaking, and it was many breathless minutes before he could resume his remarks. At length silence was partially restorel, and the General concluded: "I have but one word more, my friends, to say; it is to advise ycu, while your soldiers are fighting in the field, to see that the war is prosecuted r .: .- .1.. ,f or us proper i...,ev s.ur !'" ",c Union and the Constitution. aud the maintenance of vour nationality and your rights as citizens." Such is the verbatim report of Gen McClel lan's significant words. You will perceive that it differs, in some essential particulars, from the hasty language ol the telegraph. TM. L , I C . I. ...Liilmn , , .- . j part of the last sentence were as distinct and marked as it was possible or human voice or gr-t 'ire to mane them, and it was uuJerstood by everv man in the swaying multitude The shout that hailed it would have made even our vast rrowds of the Conner Institute and Citv Hall l lie em Wis bis auu maimer oi un- uuhhuuiul Park ouiver with envy. It was wild, unanimous. i spontaneous, and renewed the answer to the Gen i?ra s anneal again and again. A thrilling cnoru the heart of "Old Jersey" was evidently f aw m touched, and it gave out its resjionse in n aster tones. Old men and young men in the crowd clapped each other on the back, and warmly shook hands in tlieir gteeilll satisiacuoil Hi an ui in .nice as

aempiotnatic and important as that famous order I aration would dissolve that love into mere nothto the Army of the Potomac after the battle of j ingness, and they now propose to "strike while

Autietam. The steward of one of the'Curopcan steamers at Boston, who wanted to take a box ashore unobserved, said to a custom house officer whom he knew, "If I was to put a half eagle piece upon one of your eyes, could you see?" The answer was, "No; snd if 1 had another on my mouth I could not speak "

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Remit Central Hallt ck StritegfHew he Could hace Prevented Let' Etcape to Richmond Sublimely Ridiculous Spectacle of 700, 000 Union Troops Scattered to tht Four Winds. Washington, November 18. When the history of this Administration comes j to be wiitten (and'it wüt be written) it will bo ! teen that there have been two periods when the war was particular!- mismanaged. One was was particularl v mismanaged. One we,re '"" cClellau s grasp. en H"llH:k ' "pemet.t of the army could "ot J g ,1m,u that bu " :8 uerJ M Kt lb nur Ii trtA trt f . L Miihmind Kr m M.ufa "i: . . TF- , "-.v - - , which his military education oucht to have taught him is imptacticable, he was the primary cause of the deleat of Pope's army, and ot placing the capital in that imminent peril from which McClellan alone extricated it. If. instead of doing this, he had sent Pope's army down to Harrison's Landing to reinforce McClellan, the rebels wSjuld not have dared to tend a single regiment towards Washington, while McClellan, reinforced by Pope's troops, would have taken Richmond and ended the war. When the full history of this war comes to be wiitten, these .Vets will be made manifest. With the GOO ,000 troops that haxe been at his I disposal ever since the battle of Aniietam, what has Gen. Halleck done? Literally nothing. A I second time he hid the opportunity of i nihilati ing the whole rebel army and ending the war; j and a second time he permitted the apportunity j to slip from him. How? Take the man and see. After the battle of Autietam, Lee marched his ; army between Harper's Kerry and Winchester, I west of the Shenandoah. 14') miles from Richi mond in a straight line, but 170 miles from Richmond by the roads. There were M troops of i any consequence bei w een him ami Richmond. ! The brave Sigel was at Cenierville. From Centerville, nearly due west, theie runs an excellent 1 I . wM . : I , t f , . ?P,TO,"U. "- """r" " ;' irrenton, across the Blue Ridge, through Lurav, across a f rd ol the Shenandoah, to New Market, 6(1 milesfrom Cen terville. Admittinü that Gen. McClellan h 'd 1(MI,000 troops, what was tliete to prevent Gen. Halle k from sending another I00.W0. out of the ;V.)0.00' at bis disposal, to New M . over this route, scarcely a four days' march? Pitsitivelr nothing. Between this ton e on the south and McClellan's army on the north. Lee would have beer ground to powder as surely as the grain is ground between the upper and the nether mill -' stone '"hen intlee! Leecoul.i not have escaped to Richmond But Gen. H alle-k cauid not see this. He waited till October. By that time Lee had built his three rjads to Richmond, had opened his communications and lines of retreat, and was ready to tight McClellan, or to run. as he deemel most expedient Then, early in October. Halleck or dereil McClellan to advance on Lee and hi. hi lorn. Remember that McClellan had lost 15.000 of his best troois at Autietam and South Mountain, and that he had been incessantly calling both for reinforcements, mid for shoes and blankets for his destitute soldiers And remember lhat Gen. Griffin's division is still without these articles, in this bitter cold weather.) He im.w, for he had discernment, lhat no General could rosce Lee to fight. When theadiance took place. Lee did exactly what any General who knows his business would have done. He maneuvered his army n. such a way as to draw the enemy as far away from his base, and as near to his owi. , as possible. I have shown that it had been in Geu. Halleck's power to have prevented him from doing so. Well, what has he done with the 500.000 j troops, admitting now that Uurnside has 200,000? 1 Mitchell failed at Savannah for want of troops, j Foster has just now made a big failu.e in North I Carolina for want of troops Nothing can be done at New Orleans for want ot hoops. Bnell conducted the campaign in Kentucky admirably, iu spite of the sneers of his enemies. He drove Bragg's army out of the State, and would have sent a strong column around his flank to intercept him long before he reached the Cumberland Gap, but for want of troops; Knoxville, where the rebels are turning out cannon and shells in vast quantities, m:ght have been in our possession months ago, but fo- want of troops Where, then, or the troop? Where have they been sent to, mid what are they doing? Above all, what have they done? They exist. Be sure of that. When General Halle k was placed iu command, there were 600.000 men on the rolls, but of these only 500,000 were effective. There are now on the rolls 700,000 effectives, all drawing their pay. ' Where are they, and what are they doing? The i secret can tie told in a word They are scattered and frittere! away just where there is no need j for 'hem. and there has been no concentration for I great purposes Gen. Haileck may understand i the art of war. but the results of his campaigns. ! compared with the enormous means at his dispo- ; sal, do uot itidicate that fret. X. A. H. Conner's Romance. A genius in Indiana has undertaken to show that the late elections in that State were earned by fraud. By comparing the votes at previous elections, he makes out that there were about eighteen thousand more votes nolle! than there were in the State. There might hate been some logic in that if a full vote was given at the previoue ele Tions. But lhe writer does not pretend to settle that point. It would be easy to show frauds in all the Slates at everv exciting election when a full vote comes out, although, bv taking the register, it might be shown th.it all the votes were not polled. But if there were fraudulent votes, how is it shown who got them? Weil, this writer goes into detiil, citing the cases of immeri ous counties from which large numbers of volun teers are gone, and vat the Democrats vote has increased, and the Reub!icmi rote has decreased. Of course all the world knows that must have been the case, otherwise the Republicans would have carriel the State That is just what the Democrats expected would happen before the election. They expected to beat the RepuhliI cans; for they expected their vote in lhe counties j generally would increase, and that of their oppo nents would decrease I hat is the way a party beaten one year curries it the next. It is pre cisely what would happen if a large i. umber of men change their vote-from one side to the other. If this writer had taken a complete register of the votes carefully made out in one count v. and then showed a much larger vote, it would have I been tolerable proof that there was fraud somej where; but then the question would remain, did I the successful or defeateJ party poll these fraudu- ! lent votes? It is a little marvelous that if frauds werecommitted in so mny counties they were not delected I somewhere, hi past elections the Democrats I have proved frauds upon their opponents in Indi- ! ana. not by vague speculations, but by testimony j to the point Now.it is a little too much to tell us of frauds all over the Stite everywhere, and that Judges and Sheriffs iu the various precincts discovered them nowhere The whole story is marvelous, and the defeated ' party only damages itself by the preposterous j yarn. Such extensive frauds are not only iesj probable, but impossible In large cities considerable frauds may be committed; but in rural districts, where the mass of voters in Indiana live, ! this story of fraud is absurd. Besides, if such frauds were possiblaw the Kepublienns are the ilieu m oui mem in pi-v..v. ' .. . . . e f I An in nsa IS A l hcv nave shown ,h.ip oar.aa, i it before: snd whensnartv shows no scruples in overriding laws snd Consti tutions to get at an end, they might well be suspected of putting all the names they could pick up in the baliot-box. Inasmuch as God is on their side, a pious fraud of this sort would be quite reasonable, and, indeed, required of them. i ... t . , uouisvnie ivnii'icrai. l flarrlatarea sind Ihe War j 4 " ! The Albany Standard says: j One would naturally suppose that the war would have a tendency to cause a fall in matrimonial stocks, but this is not too ease. The mar ket is buoyant, snd live demand ibr dominie and frosted cake is even greater about the present j days, than it has beeu for some time past. As ent all of our readers are aware, the 10th regi is composed principally of single toung who are and have been keeping company with young girls to the present day. Their lore for etch other is at its hight. A nine months' septhe iron is hot. We are acquainted wnn no .ess than twenty-eight members of the regiment who have already or are about to be spliced to some fair piece ot calico before departing for the seat of war. By this means the warm lore that now exists between them will continue to increase until the day of their return, when the brave soldier will have a fair and loving bosom to rest his I bead upon.